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Raymond Carver drank too much
As everybody knows
Alcoholic tendencies
Render you more likely to express yourself in prose
When you’re in an inebriated state
Pretty words reverberate
Sober at your writing desk
You don’t feel so Carveresque

The literary fairytale:
Read all day and spend the night in jail
Document experience and paint it blue
The latest manuscript is out for review
It’s a breakthrough
It’s a breakthrough

Some of us will write about
Our twentysomething selves
In the name of gravity
The weight of these analyses will overburden shelves
Gritty stories, the bulk of which are true,
Illustrate what not to do
Hard-earned wisdom, out there for
Generations to ignore

The literary fairytale:
Empty bottles and a paper trail
Maybe there’s a person you can turn into
And then incorporate your own point of view
It’s a breakthrough
It’s a breakthrough
It’s a breakthrough
It’s a breakthrough

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from Some of Us Are Free, Some of Us Are Lost, released April 19, 2019
Bob Hillman – acoustic guitar, vocals
Jonny Flaugher – electric bass
Phil Krohnengold – piano, organ
Tamir Barzilay – drums, percussion
Rich Hinman – acoustic guitar, pedal steel
Jordan Katz - trumpet, bass trumpet, flugelhorn
Laura Mace - harmony

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Bob Hillman is navigating the second act of a career that began in the late 90s, flourished in the early 00s, survived ten years of “real jobs,” and resumed in 2016 with the Peter Case- produced Lost Soul.

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